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An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Emphasis on financially-savvy leadership skills. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for the future. Introduction to risk management and behavioral finance principles to understand the real-world functioning of securities, insurance, and banking industries. The ultimate goal of this course is using such industries effectively and towards a better society.

Syllabus

Module 1
-Welcome to the course! In this opening module, you will learn the basics of financial markets, insurance, and CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model). This module serves as the foundation of this course.

Module 2
-In this next module, dive into some details of behavioral finance, forecasting, pricing, debt, and inflation.

Module 3
-Stocks, bonds, dividends, shares, market caps; what are these? Who needs them? Why? Module 3 explores these concepts, along with corporation basics and some basic financial markets history.

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Adelynecompleted this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

I was really looking forward to this course but unfortunately was a bit disappointed by it. Prof Shiller is clearly very knowledgeable in this topic, and his teaching assistants Kai and Gautam did a fairly good job in putting the course together, but some of the guest speakers were not very good speakers - many were over-reliant on their notes which made their speeches hard to follow.

Perhaps one of the reasons for this disappointing nature of the course is the fact that it had been chopped up from a full-length course on OpenYale, I may one day try that out to see if it is slightly better.

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Yashacompleted this course, spending 4 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

A "too-introductionary" course, as I see It, with a very basic informations about a somewhat large number of topics. The course is not filmed specially for Coursera, but professor's lections for Yale students were just cut off and put on the site - I was very disappointed by such a treatment. As well, It resulted in a low efficiency of material presentation.

Professor himself was very good: ineresting and understoodable. Guests were interesting as well, and presented their special points of view for some topics.

(P.S.: I have BA in Economics and have got nothing, but guests opinions from this course)

Good introductory course although I wish they had more reading material. One of the recommended books was quite expensive.it is great to hear Professor Schiller however I feel more effort should have been put into the questions as some involve looking for answers on the net.

Overall a good introduction as it covers some interesting history in finance so I recommend it for anyone starting to study finance.

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Diegocompleted this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

I think it's very remarkable that a Nobel Prize teaches in such a good way to young people and it's been a very interesting introductory course. Maybe I expected more free further readings but this is only my view and it's still a very recommended course. I also appreciated a lot his view of a broader collaboration between economics and the other social sciences.

Anilkumarcompleted this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

This is a MUST do MOOC for all those interested in the world of finance. Apart from the nitty-gritties of finance , Prof Shiller gives his insights into various aspects of the financial world which is very usefull.

Really enjoyed this class, Professor Schiller is a good and interesting lecturer. The video-editing is sometimes not great and there were a few dodgy questions on the quizzes. Overall a very good class.

Adejimi is taking this course right now, spending 12 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

I am pasitionate of being antipate to investigate in business risk before decision ttaking. Am aim of becoming buoyant financial analyst in which I believe on training will help and improve my career development